Double Chocolate Mint Cookies
I’m having all sorts of epiphanies today.
Epiphany #1 being: I suck at to do lists.
I made one full of things I need to do this week on Monday and out of 10 things, I have two crossed off. It’s only Friday, right?
But I did make cookies and so what if that wasn’t on the list.
Epiphany #2: If it’s snowing, I’m baking.
And as I perused all my recipe sources and sipped my tea I came to perhaps the most important epiphany of the day.
Epiphany #3: Peppermint rocks.
And I realized I needed to venture out into the snow for peppermint extract. No, it couldn’t wait till tomorrow — see epiphany #2.
And in the end I had 24 fudgy mint cookies that I then had to hide from myself. Word to the wise, that trick doesn’t work.
Double Chocolate Mint Cookies
Adapted from here.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp peppermint extract
- 1 1/2 cup AP flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour*
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips*
Method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk pumpkin and sugar together. Add eggs and peppermint.
- Add flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt and mix with a wooden spoon.*
- Mix in chocolate chips then wet your hands and roll dough into 24 small balls. Place dough balls on the baking sheets and flatten slightly.
- Bake 9-10 minutes then let cool for 5 minutes.
*I used 1/2 cup whole wheat flour because I ran out of AP, but you can totally use 2 cups of regular old flour.
*I used 1/4 cup regular chocolate chips and 1/4 cup white chocolate chips, which means I divided the dough into 2 at the end and mixed the chips into the separate chunks of dough. You can use whatever chips you want!
*Put some elbow grease into the mixing or use a electric mixer if you have one. I don’t know about you but my sole motivation for strength training is being able to mix batters/dough by hand.
Epiphany #4: You don’t need butter to bake.
Which is good because I used my daily butter allowance while trying to create pumpkin pie oatmeal.
The pumpkin gives the cookies a fluffy effect, which looks cool and tastes even better. You should make them because they taste like the holidays.
And like I said, peppermint rocks.
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What is your favorite cookie flavor? I’m an old-fashioned chocolate chip oatmeal girl myself, but even I like a little change now and then.
Have you ever used pumpkin in a baked good? You know, other than in pumpkin bread.
Happy Friday!
Lauren Loves Good Food 
These look and sound so very tasty! Love love love it! And I too like to mix by hand — mixers are overrated and how else am I supposed to pre-burn my cookie calories?
I use pumpkin for fudge, breads, cookies, etc.
DOUBLE Chocolate?! Oh gosh, your chocolate mint cookies wouldn’t last long at my house. I love how you used pumpkin in these — and you don’t even notice it. YAY for hidden veggies! 🙂
MMM LOVE mint and chocolate together! These sound so good! Stay warm in all that snow!
Oh my, the cookies look delicious. Can you taste the pumpkin or does the mint and chocolate mask it? 🙂
You can’t taste it at all.
Oh it look and sounds so good. I am totally into peppermint at the moment. I have been having peppermint hot cocoa every night for a few weeks now. Love it!
As for my favorite cookie: see yesterday’s post 🙂
Delicious!
These sound amazing! Yum 🙂
I made these last night and they’re awesome. And no butter = I eat multiple cookies and don’t feel bad hah
Awww, I’m so glad you made them! Word to the wise, eat them fast before they dry out!!
Wooo! Now I have even more of a reason to eat more of them quickly hahah